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I really disliked this essay. It seems to not be saying very much; what little it's saying doesn't really need to be said; and moreover what little it's saying doesn't need to be said, of all times, right now.

It strikes me as a kind of mawkish attempt to rebut the comments of two doctors about weighing the lives and well-being of younger people more heavily than that of older people when forced to make public policy choices. I'm not sure why these particular doctors need rebutting; the more extreme of them, Ezekiel Emanuel, made some comments seven years ago and a year and a half ago that are being responded to; the other, John Lee, published an essay on Unherd recently, which is a fairly fringe site I think? Looking at Wikipedia it's British, so maybe it's not so fringe in the the UK? But The Hedgehog Review and Alan Jacobs, the author of this piece are both American. At any rate, neither of them are prominent or influential. And truth be told, it seems like Emanuel - who seems to have said some pretty unpleasant things and is the primary target here - was roped in as a way to tarnish Lee's more recent, more relevant, more even-handed comments.

The upshot is, old people can do meaningful things, like go on vacation and have a fun time, too! ...which is so banal as to not really be worth saying. Of course they can! They just...can do a lot less of it in the remainder of their lives, on average, across the entirety of the population; and they've had more opportunity to do so already compared to the young. Under normal circumstances this doesn't really matter. But when circumstances are forcing a choice...well. Jacobs acknowledges that maybe we do have to make some kind of brutal calculations, but doesn't really suggest how; he just pleads sentimentally. Which isn't surprising, because if you're ever actually willing to make that kind of brutal calculation, it's hard to imagine a moral calculus that says "killing young people with their lives ahead of them so the elderly can get a few more golden years in" is the right way to go. And there's the kicker, in the conclusion: "it would be good if some of our public-health experts would find a way to incorporate those ineffable but vital things into their calculations", as though any public-health experts anywhere seem to be willing to make the trade-off he seems to be accusing them of making.

And - admittedly this is more of an emotional reaction - the paragraph about how "['Covidtide'] has offered opportunities for renewed connection and a deepening of affection" feels, to me, borderline offensive in light of everything "Covidtide" (ugh) has wrought: the deaths from the disease itself, the mental health disaster of isolation, the poverty from economic shutdown, the debt we'll spend decades paying off (at the cost to social services), abuse victims trapped in their homes with their abusers...I guess it's just an attempt to look for a silver lining in a bad situation, but looking all that in the face and saying, "ah, but it's so nice that I got to spend a bit of extra time with my grandkids!" smells faintly repulsive.
Please check your website on mobile. Firefox on android only displays a portion of the page; most of it is offscreen to the left.
He wasn't and he didn't.
Even before COVID he would have been an early investor. That means he invested in what IPO’ed as a 5 billion dollar company at basically the ground floor (the company is now 60 billion).

Yammer was bought by MSFT for more than it was worth (and likely more than it was valued at when he invested).
A pretty toxic rant that makes me wonder who they are trying to impress? I mean if your business is web-hosting, why rant about politics on your blog? Sure, some politics intersect, like SOPA, but this stuff does not. I wouldn't like my providers to be doing that no matter what side they rant from.
Maybe just re-read this paragraph:

> First of all, they evaluate the quality of life almost wholly in terms of activity, especially professional activity. Valuable years for Lee are “active and event-filled” years. Emanuel asserts, “There are not that many people who continue to be active and engaged and actually creative past 75. It’s a very small number.” It is hard to know whether this is true because he doesn’t define “active” or “engaged” or “creative,” but elsewhere in the same interview he is extremely dismissive of anything, including especially “play,” that is not “meaningful work.” He is quite explicit in his scorn for anyone, even well past retirement age, who lives for play rather than work: “But if it’s the main thing in your life? Ummm, that’s not probably a meaningful life.”
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Interpret it as you wish but according to MS’s most recent earnings report Windows only grew 1%.
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I always get this 50+ years old super serious programmer men talking about serious things and us under 40 years olds cannot say anything without their approval. I guess I am not alone.
Sorry for the lack of post history: I made an account to jump in.

You asked..

> how do you explain the very large number of people who spends tons of time and energy trying to get good at maths but fails to even grasp simple concepts like calculus?

One answer, as vector_spaces said, is that the learning environment can completely change the outcome of this effort. You agreed:

> Circumstances matter

It's true that talent being a factor doesn't contradict that, but given how homogenous early-life learning environments are, it's -extremely- difficult to tell whether a person "failed" because of lack of talent, vs. lack of the right environment to experiment and learn.

Basically, because a "wrong environment" fail looks like a "lack of talent" fail, I believe a lot of talented people don't find out that they have the talent in the first place, as they believe that an attempt in the wrong environment is as good as any attempt, and never try again - particularly if they've been chastised and humiliated -during- that learning process, as vector_spaces was.

In any case, the reason I wanted to jump in was because of your original statement:

>I don't think this is because people told them anything

I would just ask that you reconsider that position, based especially on your agreement that "circumstances matter." Thanks for reading.

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Hmm that makes sense. I have always felt it is more damaging to hear that than anything (I'd rather people not tell me that) because you're right, it starts to seep in my subconscious. Thanks for your perspective, I like seeing fresh perspectives here to keep my mental space in check.
Re first paragraph: Do you think mathematics and physics are different? It isn't like the old papers are relevant after hundreds of years, others have written the same things in more distilled and easier to read formats.
Programs source code is just as copyrighted as late 20th century literature.

However, it's not generally available (unlike late 20th century literature). If windows sold with the source code (even if you were forbidden from doing anything with it), then we would be reading windows source code in our CS classes.
I agree. 100%
4chan has been responsible for turning so many kids into racists using humor. I remember a whole period in like 2010 when there was a — before 4chan I used to see black people as “black person in a suit”, now I see black people as “terribly racist caricature”. I would hate to see it go but boy is that place the true breeding ground for hate.
Do you really not see the difference between child pornography and what the above comment said?

In that case the porn is like the specific death threat. A crime on its own. Actual speech is different
The smileys, the manner of speech, this comes off as fedora-wearing levels of embarrassing.
Reverse your process. Talk about it to people first, then work on a feature they need (in aggregate).
As you can see I don't care about downvotes. I will say it simply as I can: iOS, iPadOS and in the near future macOS are vertically integrated service and sell channels. The right move that I expected was to make at least iPadOS macOs like not the other way around. The idea to run macOS apps on iPad is more valuable in general computing terms than using touch designed software on desktop os.
Ipads are powerful enough but we don't have a proper access to filesystem and terminal. You can't compile on iPad or iPhone. The macs are around as development platform for increasingly restricted environment. Combine this with trend for SaaS and you will see that using your computer is actually renting overpriced hardware to work in the cloud.
Everything that Apple does is exploiting the limits of their user base.
Don't let me start on system design decision about VPN and Kernel extensions. (I know they will fix this in next update, but whats next?)
And I tried and tried, but to no avail. I can understand what formulas describe, if I take time to remember definitions. But my mind refuses to grasp the reality behind those formulas, if that reality doesn't map well to everyday things like 3D space, objects, movement and so on.

It could be possible that I haven't tried long enough, but at about 35 I decided to put less effort into it and to prioritize other things.

I'm not encouraging anyone to avoid trying, of course. It was a very useful experience. Knowing that seemingly different things may have unifying mathematical structure (like monad in programming) can expand your approaches even if you aren't good at recognizing and exploring those mathematical structures.
Microsoft even had a "research kernel" they licensed out to unis, and we did read (parts of) that in CS classes. (but still of course very different than actually having the full source of real systems through history available for general study)
That’s a compelling point.

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So the opposition of discord is a gang of wallstreet traders? Are you sure about that? To be honest, I don’t see it. If people comply with basic norms of decency they will get back on those platforms. The problem might be that they CAN’T but then it’s a problem of basic education and training rather than opposition.

And I would argue the reverse to your point regarding free speech. More and more words are being used under the banner of free speech. People are trying to justify more things and other people are pushing back trying to uphold formerly established civil norms about how to say or not to say things under free speech. It’s really a plot of irony.

The biggest irony of all is that the perspective on this matter is largely shaped by your political philosophy and whether you profit from these changes. It’s really difficult to make objective judgements on this matter (also for me).
This is some of the oldest stuff in the book in terms of human psychology: how to create group beliefs, how to punish defectors, etc. I think it might work surprisingly well, given the rise of populist movements in the past few years.
Reminded me of a passage from a DFW short story called Good Old Neon [0]:

"He asked if I ever played chess, and I told him I used to in middle school but quit because I couldn’t be as good as I eventually wanted to be, how frustrating it was to get just good enough to know
what getting really good at it would be like but not being able to get that good, etc."

You might like the story, it's pretty well-written and maybe touches on something similar to what you're feeling.

[0] http://sdavidmiller.com/octo/files/no_google2/GoodOldNeon.pd...
I have some questions.

How much will the false negatives cost in customer satisfaction?

How many FTEs will you need to maintain and improve this?

How many more customers did you get from the PR?
Censorship always serves those with the power to censor.
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Thanks @kstenerud! apologies the site is not mobile optimized yet, best viewed on desktop. (super hacky I know) We're working on it!
Hey you landing page looks great, can I ask if you designed it from scratch?
After reading your comment, I checked out both. Bad User Experience. Calendly just works for the 99% of the normal people who have no idea what CalDAV is. I like CalDAV but more like a good-to-have.

I almost liked harmonizely just because of the fact I can setup custom domain but after trying out for an hour or so, I think I will have to wait for Calendly to start sucking before I come back here.
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Julia shines with this style, especially since the way modules compose works much better with multiple dispatch that crosses module boundaries. Sometimes a few surprises crop up, but by and large it's such a pleasure to work with.
From your commit in README.md

>> You can emulate Supabase using `docker-compose` by following these steps inside the `./docker` folder.

What does even emulating mean for an open source product ? Why do I want to emulate and not run the real thing.

>> I probably can't satisfy you

Dude, if you can show me one another product which claims to be "open source" that can't be self hosted I will admit it.
Albendazole - retail price in Russia is $2 per pill... How in the world it may cost $13 per pill to manufacture and sell? OK you can factor in Russia vs USA ~2.5x PPP factor, it's still $5 per pill retail then - how come it comes out 4x more expensive?
Refreshing to have HN backpedaling on years of “they’re a private business they can do what they want” rhetoric. We already know you don’t have a spine, now it’s just amusing.
> These people who live a vigorous life to 70, 80, 90 years of age—when I look at what those people “do,” almost all of it is what I classify as play. It’s not meaningful work. They’re riding motorcycles; they’re hiking. Which can all have value—don’t get me wrong. But if it’s the main thing in your life? Ummm, that’s not probably a meaningful life.

I'm never really to sure which to find more shocking about these kind of public intellectuals, their hubris in thinking they can define what makes a life meaningful for someone-- everyone--else or that they are often given positions of actual influence.

Then again, maybe things makes more sense if the people running the world think the only thing giving other peoples lives meaning is work.
> “Take away the right to say ‘fuck’ and you take away the right to say ‘fuck the government.” -- Lenny Bruce

That's a comedian being funny and cool. The right to say "fuck the government" isn't important. I'd rather keep the de facto right criticize the government substantively, which may de jure exist, but is drowned in the de facto drivel.
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Discord and reddit are private companies, and they have no obligation to let you use their services. They can kick you out for any or no reason, with or without any recourse available to you. If you don't like it go make your own reddit and discord.

TLDR: Company does business. Why is this news?
No, I thought "bunk" means bed bunker or bunk as in pile something over one another.
> The biggest problem with intermediate level programmers is their love of hard and fast rules

I think that’s just a problem of dogmatism, which doesn’t necessarily go away with experience.
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Wow Everly, from the sentence it looks like that could be really good. Thanks for the suggestion I will read it tomorrow.
Strong agree! I had to double check the price of Albendazole here in India... and it is 8 INR, which is 0.11 USD.

Yes, you're reading that right: 11 cents.
Is this not the classic problem with all censorship? Of course the majority (and I) would agree that the language used is not productive, but the question of whether something should be allowed, despite its "goodness" (or lack there of), is much more nuanced. I think an argument can be made that the definition of a public forum has changed.
Microsoft's compressed pages implementation seems to work far better than zswap on Linux.

I can't quite see why - perhaps the logic to decide which pages to compress is different, or there is too much code in the swap subsystem that slows down the compression/decompression process...
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Discord is an app for kids to talk about playing video games. That's like being upset that you got banned for cussing someone out on Club Penguin.

The target audience for Discord is kids, of course they're going to have harsher moderation policies than IRC did back in the day.
At Google SRE we had a flat ratio regardless of whether you had a page or not.

The idea was two-fold: reduces paperwork, and incentivizes the SRE team to reduce alerts that have to be dealt with.

In any case, my main point was that anything that prevents me from having a beer or going bungee jumping is 'work' in my books. Though, obviously, there are different levels of intensity.
The Roman empire fell so why should we care what they thought about securities trading?
The people hurting are the ones who get addicted to gambling with stocks and options. One person becoming a millionaire doesn't make up for another losing their life savings.
> immature shit-for-brains

You can't denounce the common application of an everyday swearword using an every day swearword; indeed one extrapolated into a derogatory phrase.

> unoriginal arguments made poorly.

Indeed.
I'm confused, what is the lesson here? That quote seems to get thrown around so often that it can be applied to anytime that anyone gets criticized for anything. The moderator's statement appears to be asking for more help with moderation, not advocating for less moderation or advocating for more hateful behavior to be allowed.
> what little it's saying doesn't need to be said, of all times, right now.

The philosophy of life and death needs to be considered and discussed especially when humankind is faced with difficult choices of life and death. The choice of optimizing saved life-years may be the right one now, but we as human beings must not become cynical. The value of life can not be measured in terms of events and activity.

I do understand your point of view. For someone who has lost much to Covid-19 and realizes how much we will lose, it is easy to read the article as childish and arrogant. But that is not the only way to read it.
Not sad or confusing at all. It’s par for the course.

WSB likes to use a line from The Dark Knight that Joker says - that it’s not about the money, it’s about sending a message.

It’s very apt and I look forward to how far these things go. I’m fine being on a site that doesn’t share my views. I’ll sit and laugh as the system fucks over every last person that keep defending it against their (and everyone else’s) better interests. And then when they can’t find the downvote button anymore because it’s no longer allowed, I’ll laugh some more.
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I was referring to the general attitude of one of the parent comments which was making a statement about supporting speech with derogatory terms on principle.

In this instance, I generally agree that I don’t think it is a prime example of things that need to be “shut down”. It’s probably a borderline case. But if discords terms of service disallow this type of language, I think it’s a good sign that they try to stand by it and apply it also to cases that are not clearly (also) politically motivated. If it’s about how to talk rather than what you say this is what you would expect to see.

All my comments point to this renegotiation of norms and obviously tough and contentious calls will have to be made.
They banned everyone, not just a few users.

Imagine if HN’s host killed all of HN because someone used the “r word” and it wasn’t removed.
True. But it’s more than memeing a stock. They’re doing it knowing that these hedge funds will have to gobble up stock to close their shorts.
Canva became one of the most successful startup unicorns in history
Revenue != profit. That $6.5 billion in revenue cost them just over $6.5 billion, so net they lost a little bit of money in 2020. The three years prior, net profit was between 0.3 cents/share and 0.5 cents/share. Additionally, revenue decreased from about $8.5 billion last year. So if the past four years are representative of future prospects, the value of GME's business is $0. But the assets - liabilities (book value) is about $5/sh.
Yeah, nowadays most of the sites are suffering from div-ititis that has no semantics, massive blackholes of JavaScript that have to be loaded and processed before you can even see plain text, and CSS class names that are randomly hashed with each deployment in the name of modularity.

General accessibility be damned.

<noscript> fallback messages be damned. (Except when snitching on your page views to Google Analytics, that's too important to be neglected! I wonder if GA has any default marker to let their customers distinguish these views from normal ones, or if that's still left to each customer to implement manually.)

UI customizations in the form of browser extensions and styles be damned.

Ad blocking be damned.
Javascript is as privileged as programming languages get. It's welded into all web browsers except perhaps Lynx. To get traction, an alternative language would need to be simultaneously included in several browsers. Good luck with that.
It makes no sense to pick a specific word and draw an arbitrary line. You can be far more offensive without any "slurs" by asking if one's mother was frequently drunk while pregnant.
What do you even mean with talent? Specifically when it comes to mathematics, that is. Some astrological alignment of circumstance such that someone can realize their potential unimpeded by their economic class, physical or mental health status, abilities in the language of instruction, lack of interest in the material, or innumerable other such challenges? Or are you referring also to some eugenicist fantasy of a person whose neurochemistry/physiology happens to be optimized for that specific subset of human activities that we call mathematics?

The latter assumes the former, since if such a thing exists, you can be sure that external factors would limit such a person's ability to succeed in traditional settings.

In either case, I don't understand why such a notion would be useful to anyone except as a justification for gatekeeping and maintaining a culture of elitism in math, which is very much not needed. I'm genuinely curious as to why you find the concept useful
> It’s hard to implement vsync properly when there’s a socket connecting application to display server.

That would affect all X11 based applications, yet somehow screen tearing consistently seems to disappear as soon as I bypass the compositor.

> Otherwise it gonna introduce presentation latency (especially bad for online games)

I once went around looking how much latency various Linux desktop environments introduce. The most widely used ones (KDE and Gnome) on their default settings are outright catastrophic. KDE lets you disable desktop effects and the compositor, Gnome only bypasses it for full screen applications. As always eye candy > functionality.
Wombats use poop to mark territory. A wombat with more stable poop will be better able to mark its territory and ward off competitors. It's a beautiful bit of evolution for one specific mammal in this one specific environment.
Well, most students in (contemporary) math programs don't learn to derive their axioms from Euclid (construction of naturals are usually done via Peano), their Calculus from Newton's Principia, and nor do they learn their set theory from Cantor's original papers. Instead they learn from modern textbooks that make only a passing reference to the original authors.
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Fuck off dude, your argument here is nothing better than an ad hominem despite you claiming the supposed intellectual high ground. Discord is cowardly and aggressively normative and so are you